By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
